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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Thursday wrote that American workers were “sacrificed completely” by special interest groups like the National Council of La Raza and the Chamber of Commerce in the Senate’s immigration reform bill.

“The president, the Senate, and the House were all sent to Washington by American citizens,” Sessions wrote in an op-ed in The Hill. “Every decision we make must be guided by how it will impact the lives and livelihoods of the people who sent us here on their behalf. Yet in the current immigration debate, the American citizenry is the one group that has been almost entirely forgotten. While the Gang of Eight legislation provided special interest groups—from La Raza to the Chamber of Commerce—with their desired provisions, the core interests of the American people were sacrificed completely.”

Ultimately, Sessions argues, the bill—and the larger immigration debate taking hold in the House right now—is more focused on helping special interest groups and illegal immigrants than on helping out-of-work American citizens and legal immigrants find work.

Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Breitbart News that Attorney General Eric Holder’s claims that amnesty for illegal immigrants is a civil rights issue“profoundly ahistorical.”

“If you take a look at the basis of the civil rights movement, it was to have blacks treated in all respects the same as whites or everybody else,” Kirsanow (pictured) said in a phone interview. “What amnesty is doing is setting aside a special class of individuals who are going to put forward and treated more favorably than others. In other words, they’ve already broken the law and are being given amnesty.

"In terms of immigration policy... it would severely affect the rights of blacks generally and all low-income Americans. What it is going to do is displace those individuals from the labor market.”

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Kirsanow said, has held extensive hearings in recent years detailing how amnesty would economically impact American workers, especially the black community.

(CNSNews.com) - An audit report published this month by the inspector general for the Social Security Administration says that the Internal Revenue Service's reluctance to penalize employers who consistently file W-2s on which the Social Security Number and name do not match has "hindered" the SSA’s efforts to stop “unauthorized noncitizens” from using Social Security Numbers that are fake or belong to someone else.

The audit report looked at “inaccurate wage reporting”—or the filing of W-2 forms on which the name and the Social Security Number do not match. The SSA has long said these no-match W-2s are frequently filed on behalf of illegal aliens. According to the IG audit report released earlier this month, a senior IRS official admitted to the IG that the service knows this is the case.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has pointed out that the intentional misuse of a Social Security Number is a felony. “The Social Security Act provides that whoever, with the intent to deceive, falsely represents a number to be his or her SSN when, in fact, that number was not assigned to that person, shall be guilty of a felony and subject to a fine,” said TIGTA.

GINNI THOMAS: Six big problems with the immigration bill from someone who has actually read it

Ginni Thomas 9:08 PM 06/09/2013

“In fact, many, many, many — except one. I didn’t find anything for Joe Q. Citizen in this bill. I didn’t find anything for the average tax-paying citizen in this bill.”

“Somebody forgot to tell him about the meeting, so he or she is not represented in this bill,” she added.

McCaughey, author of “Beating Obamacare,” laid out six criticisms and unexamined problems of the bill beyond what she sees as the problematic pathway to citizenship and lax border security provisions of the bill.

Poll Reveals Ohioans Strongly Opposed to Senate Immigration Bill

Brown, Portman Must Respect the Will of the Voters, Says FAIR

PR Newswire – Fri, Jun 7, 2013

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A statewide poll of likely Ohio voters finds strong opposition to a bill before the U.S. Senate that would grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens and dramatically increase overall immigration to the United States. According to the poll, 56 percent of Ohio voters oppose S.744, the Gang of Eight immigration bill – including 38 percent who said they are "strongly opposed." Only 36 percent of voters indicated that they support the bill and only 9 percent said they "strongly support" it.

GOP immigration supporters face back-tax dilemma

The question of whether lawmakers should force immigrants to ante up what they owe Uncle Sam on any money they were paid off the books might seem easy at first.After all, it was one of the Gang of Eight’s main talking points when it unveiled the immigration blueprint in January. Sponsors vowed that their proposal would include a back tax requirement to ward off critics’ claims that their bill would be “amnesty.” Citizenship would come with a price, they said.But the gang has all but dropped that talking point. The immigration legislation currently moving through the Senate includes a scaled-back provision that relies almost entirely on immigrants coming forward to the Internal Revenue Service voluntarily. Critics call it “toothless.”

Marco Rubio claims that his immigration bill requires an arduous 13-year path to citizenship, during which illegal aliens would be ineligible for Obamacare and other benefits– knowing full-well that those provisions will be immediately overturned by a liberal judge…

“They know if they put this in the legislation, it’s not gonna pass– so this is how they’re gonna get it…all you gotta do is go to a federal judge that agrees with the liberals and bammo! You’ve got instant citizenship…”

A top Republican lawmaker blasted President Obama after he held an Oval Office meeting this week with illegal immigrants, despite having ignored recent requests for a sit-down from the union representing immigration officers.

“The fact that the president and the vice president are hosting illegal immigrants in the White House while constricting citizen tours and refusing to meet with immigration officers says it all,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said in a statement to FoxNews.com Friday. “The White House will not even grant ICE officers a low-level White House meeting but invites illegal immigrants into the Oval Office.”

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

50 Bullets: The Rubio-Schumer Scam

May 5, 2013

As PJ Media points out, the bill is a cocktail of lawlessness, executive discretion, and legalistic trickery crafted by the organized, open-borders left. The bill and Rubio provides tough talking points – border security, background checks, and more. But hidden next to those talking points are off-switches that bureaucrats can flip to satisfy the leftist open-borders constituencies who wrote the bill.

A top Republican member of a secretive bipartisan House immigration group says they have come back from the precipice of near-failure and struck an agreement.

“We have an agreement in principle,” said Texas representative John Carter. Only yesterday Carter and fellow GOP group member Representative Raul Labrador threatened to abandon talks with Democrats if the lawmakers could not reach an agreement by today on whether illegal immigrants would be allowed to receive benefits under Obamacare.

A new website is calling for a grassroots effort to recall Arizona Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain. The recall petitions are based firmly on the grounds of the Senators’ support of the Immigration Reform Amnesty Bill. The two “Gang of Eight” Senators have chosen to turn their backs on those who voted them into office and it is high time that Arizona gets their payback on the two RINO Senators.